Blogs & Videos

In this installment of our ongoing weekly series Chris Vernon discusses asset allocation in your portfolio, specifically “bond surrogates.” A bond surrogate is a commonly used term to describe some form of fixed income security; however, they can cause over-concentration in the stock market. So, when the stock market goes down so does the value of your portfolio, and with the ongoing volatility of the market, now is the time […]

In our first video of the new year, Vernon Litigation Group welcomes their first guest speaker, Carrie Kerskie. Carrie is the founding partner of Griffon Force, https://www.griffonforce.com/, a company that provides clients with personalized risk assessment and reduction services for identity theft. Today she is discussing a potentially disastrous side effect of the government shutdown, the IRS and FTC are no longer processing any identity theft complaints, but Griffon Force […]

When a CPA approaches you asking for investments in insurance products be sure you are entirely aware of what you are getting yourself into. Insurance is a fantastic idea; however, Insurance companies find ways to motivate independent brokers to sell their policies. When this practice is combined with a CPAs position of trust it can have very dangerous results. Find out more here:  

The self-interested behavior of Wall Street was fully exposed a decade ago by the greatest financial crisis in the last 50 years. Specifically, one of the core realizations that came out of this crisis was the fact that the business model of Wall Street was not aligned with the best interest of retail investors. As a result, the self-regulatory organization funded by the securities industry (FINRA) acknowledged that a fiduciary […]